Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Auteur Directors, Political Dissent, and Cultural Critique -- 1. Nabil Maleh: Syria's Leopard (Syria) -- 2. Jocelyne Saab: A Lifetime Journey in Search of Freedom and Beauty (Lebanon) -- 3. Michel Khleifi: Filmmaker of Memory (Palestine) -- 4. Elia Suleiman: Narrating Negative Space (Palestine) -- 5. Youssef Chahine: Devouring Mimicries or Juggling with Self and Other (Egypt) -- 6. Daoud Abd El-Sayed: Parody and Borderline Existence (Egypt) -- 7. Yousry Nasrallah: The Pursuit of Autonomy in the Arab and European Film Markets (Egypt) -- 8. Mohamed Chouikh: From Anticolonial Commemoration to a Cinema of Contestation (Algeria) -- 9. Merzak Allouache: (Self-)Censorship, Social Critique, and the Limits of Political Engagement in Contemporary Algerian Cinema (Algeria) -- 10. Nabil Ayouch: Transgression, Identity, and Difference (Morocco) -- Illustration Credits -- Contributors -- Index of Films -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.